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Seven Times Down, Eight Times Up: Landing On Your Feet In An Upside Down World
The book instructs, inspires, and points the way with regard to living a psychologically healthy and spiritually fulfilled life. It contains about one hundred short stories. Read one of two before going to sleep and click off the light feeling more hopeful and more peace of mind.
206 pages, Paperback
First published July 6, 2003
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February 21, 2013
MIZU SOUP FOR THE SOUL.
“Nanakorobi Yaoki”—page 11
A weak three stars is the best I can offer for ‘Seven Times Down Eight Times Up: Landing on Your Feet in an Upside Down World,’ by Alan Gettis, PhD. Gettis serves up a mostly bland collection of parables with inclinations toward the Zen.
His writing did, at times, put me in mind of two of my favorite warmth-wit-and-wisdom writers of days gone by, Leo Buscaglia and Robert Fulghum—probably because he paraphrases some of the same stories they told—but in a less engaging style. Low-protein warmth-wit-and-wisdom.
Recommendation: Not a page-turner.
“If you urinate and brush your teeth at the same time, you’ll most likely do a lousy job at both.—page 178
NookBook edition from Barnes and Noble, 232 pages
“Nanakorobi Yaoki”—page 11
A weak three stars is the best I can offer for ‘Seven Times Down Eight Times Up: Landing on Your Feet in an Upside Down World,’ by Alan Gettis, PhD. Gettis serves up a mostly bland collection of parables with inclinations toward the Zen.
His writing did, at times, put me in mind of two of my favorite warmth-wit-and-wisdom writers of days gone by, Leo Buscaglia and Robert Fulghum—probably because he paraphrases some of the same stories they told—but in a less engaging style. Low-protein warmth-wit-and-wisdom.
Recommendation: Not a page-turner.
“If you urinate and brush your teeth at the same time, you’ll most likely do a lousy job at both.—page 178
NookBook edition from Barnes and Noble, 232 pages
September 15, 2017
Lent to me by my therapist, this book has become one I recommend to friends and family. Each chapter is like a fun parable, relatable to real life. A smooth book to read, "Seven Times Down, Eight Times Up" flows with witty tone in each applicable lesson. I exhort anyone to take an afternoon and leisurely read this book packed with information which can actually be used very day.
October 17, 2010
A book to live by. Easy to read; filled with straight forward ways to live your life without taking yourself too seriously. Pick it up when you're sad and feeling sorry for yourself -- you'll understand quickly the unproductive results of hatred, judgement, manipulation and self-pity; and the unabashed glee from just plain joy.
June 10, 2012
It is like having a therapist any time you want. With using classic stories in almost every essay Alan Gettis skips mumbo jumbo and cuts to the universal chase. Don't let his readability and lack of esoteric theory fool you. This is the real thing.
June 3, 2012
Very short stories that are poignant, inspirational, spiritual + more.
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